ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Extract Filled PDF Form Data with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK in C#

An easy to understand sample source code to learn how to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK in C# Want to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK in your C# app? ByteScout PDF Suite is designed for it. ByteScout PDF Suite is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. This C# sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! This basic programming language sample code for C# will do the whole work for you to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Xml;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace ExtractFilledFormData
{
	static class Program
	{
		static void Main()
		{
			// Create XMLExtractor instance
			XMLExtractor extractor = new XMLExtractor();
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

			// Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\filled_form.pdf");

			// Get PDF document text as XML
			string xmlText = extractor.GetXML();

			// Load XML
			XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
			xmlDocument.LoadXml(xmlText);

			// Select all "control" nodes
			XmlNodeList formControls = xmlDocument.SelectNodes("//control");
			if (formControls != null)
			{
				foreach (XmlNode formControl in formControls)
				{
					XmlAttribute typeAttribute = formControl.Attributes["type"];

					// Show filled textboxes
					if (typeAttribute.Value == "editbox")
					{
						if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(formControl.InnerText))
							Console.WriteLine("EDITBOX " + formControl.Attributes["id"].Value + ": " + formControl.InnerText);
					}
					// Show checked checkboxes
					else if (typeAttribute.Value == "checkbox")
					{
						if (formControl.Attributes["state"].Value == "1")
						    Console.WriteLine("CHECKBOX " + formControl.Attributes["id"].Value + ": " + formControl.Attributes["state"].Value);
					}
				}
			}

			// Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key...");
		    Console.ReadKey();
		}
	}
}